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e-Newsletter #1

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Practicing and promoting
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in DuPage County, Illinois

We're a 501c3 not-for-profit organization
dedicated to promoting and practicing Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in DuPage
County, Illinois. We believe that TNR is the only effective, humane and
long-term solution to the problem of cat overpopulation.

The Feral Fixers e-Newsletter - Issue #1 -
October, 2008

Save the date!!

January 11th, 2009, is the date of our first annual FROSTY CLAWS
fundraiser. We'll have more to announce about this event soon, but mark it
on your calendars!

Interested in helping Feral Fixers? We are looking for a 'few good
volunteers'! Specifically, we're looking for someone to help us
transport cats to and from PAWS (the Spay/Neuter clinic we use) in
Chicago. We need transport both in the morning and the afternoon.
If you're interested in helping, call us at (630) 881-FXRS (3977).

5% Days!

Want to help
out Feral Fixers while shopping for your groceries? Just click on
the "Shop & Share" button to download these coupons which can be used on
October 27, 28 and 29 at your local Jewel food store. Just sign
and turn these in when you checkout and 5% of your purchase will be
donated to Feral Fixers. And don't forget to print out extras to
share with your family and friends - Thank you!

Over 750 cats!

To date,
Feral Fixers has had over 750 Feral cats spay/neutered. Assuming
that half of these are female and assuming that each female would have
had two litters of four kittens each (a conservative estimate), this
means that there have been THREE THOUSAND less kittens born because of our
efforts. Fewer unwanted kittens and fewer cats being euthanized
because of no shelter space - we ARE making a difference!

Shop for Feral Fixers!

Want to be fashionable and help out
Feral Fixers at the same time? Just visit our CafePress store and
Buy Something! In addition to the Totebag, shown to the right, we
have T-shirts, Hoodies, Coffee Mugs, Pet food bowls, etc. A portion
of each sale goes to help us in our TNR efforts. To visit the store,
just click on the Tote bag button or visit our website (www.feralfixers.org)
and click on the 'Buy Something' button at the top.

Visit us on the
Web!

Visit our
website at www.feralfixers.org.
There you can donate to us (via PayPal or Credit card), visit our store,
read the latest news, view our "Picture/Video of the day" and learn more
about Feral cats. If this newsletter has been forwarded to you,
you can also sign up to be on our mailing list so you don't miss a
thing!

What is TNR (Trap / Neuter / Return)? TNR is a full management plan in
which stray and feral cats already living outdoors in cities, towns, and
rural areas are humanely trapped, evaluated, vaccinated, and sterilized
by veterinarians. Adoptable cats and kittens are transferred to
sheltering organizations to be adopted into good homes. Healthy adult
cats unsocialized to humans are returned to their familiar habitat under
the lifelong care of their original caretakers.